Beyond age: Why communities are investing in young people's futures
In this essay, Antony Mason from the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) considers how four Big Local areas – Wick Award, Church Hill, Stoke North and Coastal Communities Challenge – prioritised the welfare of young people. The essay explores how supporting disadvantaged youths can change their lives.
Context
In Local Trust’s series of essays, journalists and external experts explored how people and places experienced change throughout Big Local. Each essay considers the lessons that institutions and policymakers interested in devolution of power and responsibility to a community level could take from the programme.
These essays highlight the voices and experiences of people living in some of England’s most deprived areas, around themes such as young people, climate change, sports, power dynamics, heritage and more.
A version of this essay was published in January 2019.
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